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Jacob Thompson
1
UC Riverside UCR 11-15, 2-8 Big West
20
Winner UC Irvine UCI 19-5, 9-1 Big West
UC Riverside UCR
11-15, 2-8 Big West
1
Final
20
UC Irvine UCI
19-5, 9-1 Big West
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
UC Riverside UCR 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 8 3
UC Irvine UCI 3 7 1 1 7 1 0 0 X 20 16 0

W: Kelly, Riley (4-0) L: MILLIMAN, Nolan (2-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Alex Roberts-Croteau

No. 17 Anteaters Score 20-1 Victory over Highlanders

IRVINE, Calif. --- UC Irvine baseball started off their weekend series against UC Riverside with a resounding 20-1 Friday night in Anteater Ballpark.
  • The first three hitters set the tone all reaching and scoring in the first as Colin Yeaman doubled in the first run the other way and Anthony Martinez followed with a booming home run to center field to go up 3-0
  • UCI added to it with seven runs in the second inning on just four hits with the big ones by Jacob McCombs and Will Bermudez each singling in two for a 10-0 edge
  • The lead grew to 12-0 scoring on a wild pitch in the third and Frankie Carney tripling home a run with two outs in the fourth
  • UC Riverside got on the board on a sacrifice fly to bring home a leadoff double to make it 12-1 in the fifth
  • The Anteaters quickly regained momentum putting things away with a seven-run fifth inning from another two-run Bermudez single and three other RBI hits to lead, 19-1
  • The scoring ended in the in the sixth as UCI scored in each of the first six innings of the game adding a Zach Fjelstad solo home run for the 20-1 lead
  • Along with the thunderous bats was solid pitching from five Anteater arms
    • Riley Kelly improved to 4-0 with one-run ball over five innings. He escaped a bases loaded jam in the third inning, and finished with at least one strikeout in every inning finishing with a career high eight
    • Ryan Kysar and David Utagawa were spotless in the sixth and seventh each picking up a strikeout
    • Andrew Grove made his Anteater Ballpark debut in the eighth loading the bases before getting the third out to leave them stranded
    • Jack Ross closed things out striking out two in the 1-2-3 ninth inning
  • The 20 runs is a season high and the fourth time UCI had scored 20 or more runs in the past three seasons
    • Leading the hitting stars was Anthony Martinez with his third home run of the season and four RBIs and three runs scored with two hits
    • Bermudez also had a four-RBI night all from his two hits
    • Fjelstad and Carney each had three-hit games and drove in two with Carney reaching base five times and Fjelstad scoring three runs
    • UCI saw a lot of pitches reaching 12 times via walk, three as a result of hit by pitch, and reached on catcher's interference in addition to the 16 hits
The series is just beginning with game two set for 1:00 p.m. Saturday, March 29, with Trevor Hansen on the mound for UCI against UC Riverside's Matthew Flores.
 
 
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